The Vineyard Wind project would create 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes in New England.
A huge wind farm off the Massachusetts coast is edging closer to federal approval,…
Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests - and radically changing the environment before our eyes
by Alastair Gee
11 March, New York -- The United Nations today launched a new global campaign, Only Together, to support its call for fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines around the world.
The campaign…
Scientists have detected the ‘fingerprint’ of the climate crisis on increasing river flows in some regions and decreasing river flows in others.
The climate crisis is altering the flow of rivers …
Vanessa Nakate shocked organisers of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue by delivering a speech highlighting how she and a fellow youth activist had to submit their presentations for approval in…
If we only keep our eye on the ball of reducing carbon, we will be missing another growing problem that may yet come to haunt us.
Solar photovoltaics, wind power, EVs and batteries… It turns out…
President Xi Jinping has pledged to cap carbon emissions by 2030 and to reach the carbon neutrality by 2060.
China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, succeeded in lowering “carbon…
The global Powering Past Coal Alliance is taking sharp criticism from both sides of the Atlantic this week, with delegates gathering for a three-day online summit while the PPCA’s two founders and co…
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We have developed a new global food emissions database (EDGAR-FOOD) estimating greenhouse gas (GHG; CO2, CH4, N2O, fluorinated gases) emissions for the years 1990–2015, building on the…
ICE has announced the publication of the auction calendar for the UK's new Emissions Trading Scheme, to increase the climate ambition of the nation’s carbon pricing policy.
A UK Emissions Trading…
According to a global food waste index released on Thursday, some 931 million tons of food waste were generated across the world in 2019. The report, published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP…
Winter is supposed to be the best season for wind power – the winds are stronger, and since air density increases as the temperature drops, more force is pushing on the blades. But winter also comes…
The energy storage industry is shattering records for battery deployments, underscoring its growing role in decarbonizing the economy.
In the last three months of 2020, nearly 2.2 gigawatt-hours (…
Target is in line with previous trends and could mean greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise.
China has set out an economic blueprint for the next five years that could lead to a strong rise in…
‘Governments today haven’t been spending as green as they should,’ the report’s author told The Independent.
Less than a fifth of the money spent by major economies on long-term Covid recovery…
There are more than 4,000 coal power plants globally. Now you can track every one and see if they’re closing—or if countries are adding more.
Over roughly a decade, 256 coal power plants in the U.S…
Claim: Once global warming reaches 2°C (which we’ve nearly reached already, but scientists are downplaying it), positive feedback loops and tipping points will trigger rapid runaway warming and…
Keeping global temperatures to 1.5C could stem deadly increases in heat and humidity, study says.
Meeting the world’s climate goals could prevent millions living in the tropics from facing episodes…